How to Add Bulk Users to Microsoft Teams

Recently I came across multiple technical forums with the same question “How to add bulk members to teams through PowerShell?”. I thought I’d help with this by writing a script. Managing Microsoft Teams using PowerShell is a simple and effective way. So, Let’s dive in.    How to Add Bulk Users to Teams Group using PowerShell:  The PowerShell cmdlet Add-TeamUser adds a member to the team. But you can’t use it directly for adding members in bulk. So, you need... Read More Read More

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365: Convert User Mailbox to Shared Mailbox using PowerShell

Microsoft 365 admins often search for a way to convert a user mailbox to a shared mailbox. If you are one of them, this blog is for you.   Reasons to Convert a Mailbox to a Shared Mailbox in Office 365   When you convert a user mailbox to a shared mailbox, all the existing emails and calendars are retained. Only the type of the mailbox is changed.  When an employee leaves an organization, the administrator can convert the mailbox... Read More Read More

Exchange Online

Microsoft 365: The new Opt-out Setting to Disable Plus Addressing in Exchange Online

Plus Addressing allows users to create custom email address by adding plus (+) sign and suffix to their standard email address. For example,  Standard email address: [email protected]  Plus Addresses: [email protected], [email protected]  When the emails are sent to Plus Addresses, the emails are delivered to the standard email address.    How Plus Addressing Introduced in Microsoft 365?   In Sep 2021, Microsoft introduced Plus Addressing in Exchange Online as an opt-in option. The organizations can enable plus address by setting the ‘AllowPlusAddressInRecipients‘ property... Read More Read More

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Enabling MFA for Microsoft 365 Admins Using PowerShell

Authenticating your Office 365 account just once with a password won’t protect your data as you won’t know how the login occurred, either by you or by an attacker. So, you need to depend upon the second form of authentication that delivers a strong authentication. Here Multi-factor authentication(MFA) can be of great assistance. Multi-factor authentication is purposely used to provide more security to your Office 365. To give much security to your organization, enable MFA for admins. What is Multi-factor... Read More Read More

Microsoft 365

How to Track Emails with Office 365 Message Trace Using PowerShell

Message tracking or tracing helps admins to monitor mail flow and delivery status. With message trace, you can    Analyze what happened to an email like whether it was received, rejected, deferred, or delivered at the other end.   Troubleshoot email delivery problems.   Validate email policies and mail flow rules      How to Perform Message Trace in Microsoft 365   Message trace can be performed through the Exchange admin center (EAC) or PowerShell. Most admins prefer PowerShell over EAC. So, this blog... Read More Read More

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